It used to be done... but went out of favor quickly. It was easier to get the barn on fire than with bales.
BAck in the day, my neighborhood had "hay driers"- large ducts of wood built into hay barns. The hay was elevated and dumped over the duct, and then had to be leveled by hand. Then you turned on the blower (in the example across the street, a 15 hp squirell cage fan) and let it dry. I'm told you could put the hay in 5 or 10 points wetter that way, but it took a lot of management. People seemed to figure out quickly if you had a chopper, you might as well use the silo! The system across the road from me functioned until the long time tenant sold out in 2008. We rented the farm after that, and the landlord had us remove the duct so we could actually use the hay mow for something else. It was probably the last one of those functioning most anywhere!
Also, if you like hay with no leaves, you'll like chopping dry hay. :) It seems every last one will blow away!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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